Allāh prohibits us from taking the disbelievers as allies and loving them

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Imām al-Sa’dī said:

Allāh says:

( لَّا يَتَّخِذِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۖ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ فَلَيْسَ مِنَ اللَّهِ فِي شَيْءٍ إِلَّا أَن تَتَّقُوا مِنْهُمْ تُقَاةً ۗ وَيُحَذِّرُكُمُ اللَّهُ نَفْسَهُ ۗ وَإِلَى اللَّهِ الْمَصِيرُ)

Do not let the believers take the disbelievers as allies instead of the believers – whoever does that has nothing to do with Allāh -except if you fear a danger from them. Allāh warns you of Himself and to Him is the final return. (3:28)

Allāh prohibits the believers from entering into friendship with the disbelievers or to have love for them, aid them, or seek their help in any affairs related to the Muslims. Whoever does such a thing, Allāh forewarns him and says, whoever does that has nothing to do with Allah, that is, he has been discarded/cut off by Allāh and has no share in His religion. Friendship can never occur between disbelief and faith. In fact, faith orders to love Allāh, establish His religion, and fighting His enemies by aiding His friends (i.e. the believers). At another place in the Qur’ān Allāh says:

The believers, men and women, are allies of one another. (9:71)

( وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ )

So whoever supports – the disbelievers instead of the believers, who want to extinguish the light of Allāh and (place His friends) in distress, then he leaves the party of the believers and becomes as one of the party of the disbelievers. Allāh has said:

If any of you takes them as allies, then he is one of them. (5:51)

( وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُم مِّنكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ )

This noble verse contains evidence that the Muslims (must) avoid (i.e. free themselves from) the disbelievers, refrain from socialising with them, maintaining friendship with them, being inclined towards them and depending on them.

(Tafsīr al-Sa’dī Sūrah al-Imrān verse 28).